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...changing. Non?governmental groups such as Komen for the Cure and the World Health Organization sponsor lectures, professional gatherings and promotional events to educate women and caregivers about the disease. Grass-roots initiatives are sprouting up in places that never dared mention the disease before. Dr. Mohamed Shaalan, a breast surgeon in Cairo, reports that in Egypt, religious leaders now speak out in favor of breast-cancer awareness and screening, making it clear to husbands that their wives must be examined regularly - by male doctors if need be. In Hungary, where every woman from 45 to 65 now gets...
...took off my bandages before I went to visit my mother. She kissed the ground when she saw me," Shaalan says. By the afternoon, Shaalan and his two colleagues from Tyre were back in their orange jumpsuits and reporting once more for duty...
...Israeli authorities on why a helicopter gunship had attacked a clearly marked Red Cross ambulance. "We had all the lights on, the blue light was flashing and we had a light on the flag. There's no way that they could not see that we were Red Cross," Shaalan says...
...ambulances, driven by Qassem Shaalan, had left Tyre at around 10 p.m., having arranged to meet another ambulance coming from Tibnine, some 15 miles away, at Qana, which lies between the two towns. The Tibnine ambulance was carrying three people, a husband and wife and their 14-year-old son. All three had been injured in Israeli artillery shelling around Tibnine and their condition was sufficiently serious to dispatch them to hospital in Tyre. It took Shaalan about 15 minutes to reach Qana, having steered his ambulance around the numerous bomb craters in the road. As usual, the ambulance...
...Shaalan closed the back of the ambulance, however, a missile punched through the roof of the vehicle and exploded inside. "There was a boom, a big fire and I was thrown backwards. I thought I was dead," Shaalan recalls. He opened his eyes and checked himself to see if he was hurt. One of his colleagues, Nader Joudi, was standing, but the third member of the team, Mohammed Hassan, was unconscious. One of the Tibnine medics put through an emergency call to the Red Cross operations room in Tyre that they were under attack. Then a second missile struck...